Spring woman killed in head-on wreck in New Caney

Published 12:00 am, Friday, January 18, 2013

A wrecker driver looks over a vehicle involved in a fatal collision Thursday morning near the intersection of Gene Campbell Boulevard and East Industrial Parkway in New Caney.

A wrecker driver looks over a vehicle involved in a fatal collision Thursday morning near the intersection of Gene Campbell Boulevard and East Industrial Parkway in New Caney.

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A wrecker driver looks over a vehicle involved in a fatal collision Thursday morning near the intersection of Gene Campbell Boulevard and East Industrial Parkway in New Caney.

A wrecker driver looks over a vehicle involved in a fatal collision Thursday morning near the intersection of Gene Campbell Boulevard and East Industrial Parkway in New Caney.

Spring woman killed in head-on wreck in New Caney

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A Spring woman died Thursday morning, Jan. 17, in a car accident when her vehicle drifted into the southbound lane of Gene Campbell Road in New Caney.

The identification of the victim was not released, pending notification of next of kin.

Around 10 a.m., the 22-year-old Spring woman was headed north on Gene Campbell Road in a 1991 Honda Civic, DPS Sgt. Terry Barnhill said. A witness, who was driving a Ford Focus southbound, told investigators the Civic started to swerve into her lane.

The driver of the Ford Focus pulled onto the shoulder to avoid hitting the Civic, but a Pontiac SUV following behind the Focus could not avoid the vehicle and was struck head-on just north of East Industrial Parkway.

The Spring woman was pronounced dead at the scene, Barnhill said. The driver of the Pontiac, a 23-year-old New Caney woman, was transported by a Montgomery County Hospital District ambulance to a local ER after complaining of neck pain.

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Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace James Metts ordered that the Spring woman’s body be taken to the Montgomery County Forensic center for autopsy.